Historically, the role of a playwright or storyteller creates social narratives that are rooted in a community and function as intrinsic theatrical representations of a particular community. Plays...

A transnational music scene has developed since the 1960s connecting New York City with Santiago, Dominican Republic, through merengue típico, or traditional, accordion-based merengue (also termed...

This paper examines the trajectory of Nicanor Bolet Peraza in his role of exile writer and editor of the journal La Revista Ilustrada de Nueva York during the years of 1885-1890. By...

This article examines the pioneering work of Ernesto Galarza on Mexican children’s literature in Spanish in the United States. Between 1971 and 1973, he wrote twelve books almost equally divided...

This essay examines the theme of afrodominicanidad in the poetry of Dominican women writing in Spanish in the United States. Although the topic of African heritage in Dominican culture...

The nineteenth-century Cuban population of Jacksonville, Florida, is featured in such noted texts from the island as Autobiografía del cubano Luis de Radillo y Rodríguez (1899); Martí...